Improvement in automatic advertising apparatus



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jay/8 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

()VVEN J. MOGANN AND GEORGE A. JENKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN AUTOMATIC ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,5:1'7, dated December 3, 1878; application filed April 17, 187s.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, 0. J. MGGANN and GEORGE A. JENKs, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertisin gApparatus and we do hereby declare that the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to an advertising apparatus, for use in hotels, railway-stations, and other public places where it is likely to excite observation and interest.

The apparatus consists of an uprightcase,

material, upon whichare painted or printed a variety of advertisements, which come into view successively. The interior of the case contains an arrangement of clock-work mechanism, which, being wound up, imparts motion to the advertising-band and to the moving landscape object.

The improvement upon other advertising contrivances of this class consists in the combination, with the advertising case or cabinet provided with an opening for the display of advertisements, and a landscape viewer pic,- ture having an opening for the exhibition of a moving figure, of a vertically-moving advertising-band, a laterally-moving band to hold the landscape object, and clock-work mechanism for imparting motion to both bands from a common motor, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

v c a I A designates an upright case, of any desired size and character of design or ornamentation, upon the face of which are fixed several different articles of convenience, as a clock, B, thermometer O, barometer D, and mirrors E E, 850.

F is a central opening, covered by a plate of glass, behind which travels the advertisingband G. II is a landscape view, having an aperture at 71., or wherever the character of the view renders suitable. Immediately behind or across this aperture travels a band, K, to which is attached, or upon which 18 printed or painted, the representation of a railway-train, ship, or other movable object.

I I represent rollers upon which the advertising-band travels, and J J are other and smaller rollers, upon which the band K travels, as shown.

The roller I has a pinion, i, on one end of its shaft, engaging with a bevel-wheel, '5 on an upright shaft, i which has its bearings 111 brackets at W, and which holds on its lower end a pinion, n, engaging with a bevel-wheel, m on a cord-drum, m Acord wound around this drum passes thence over pulleys 0 0, suspended from the top of the case, and connects with a pulley-block, sustaining a weight, P.

On the end of the shaft of roller 1, opposite pinion 1;, is a spur-wheel, K, which gears with a pinion, K, connected to roller J.

The drum m holds a ratchet, m, with which engages a pawl on face of bevel-wheel m The cord is wound and the weight lifted by applying akey to the drum-shaft, the ratchet and pawl preventing recoil. As the weight descends the two bands are caused to travel slowly exhibiting in succession the devices they contain.

As a support to the shaft i a spiral spring, t, is coiled around the same, and its ends brought, respectively, against the collar of bevel-wheel & and the upper surface of bracket m.

\Ve do not wish to be understood as confining ourselves to the precise mo ha-1 12:"- ciluw'u and described, as we may modify the same in details and still retain the principle of our invention, which is embodied in the combination, with suitable clock-work mechanism applied to a case or cabinet, of the two moving bands, the one containing advertisements and the other appropriate movable landscape figures. A spring connected with the clock-work gearing might be substituted for the weight.

The exact location of the bands is not material, and may be changed from that shown.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the case A, provided with the opening F, and landscape or picture H, of the vertically-moving advertising-band G, laterally-moving band K, and clock-work mechanism, substantially as described, for imparting motion to both bands from a common motor.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

OWEN J. MGGANN. GEO. A. JENKS. Witnesses:

Rom". LYMSBOUKAY, It. S. McLAUGHLIN. 

